Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, Harvard President James B. Conant and M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton in 37 days had gone to the bottom of the rubber mess to get the ugly facts of wartime life...
...Said the three wise men: "We find the existing situation to be so dangerous that unless corrective measures are taken immediately this country will face both military and civilian collapse. . . . The naked facts present a warning that dare not be ignored." If they are, the U.S. will have "no rubber in the fourth quarter of 1943 to equip a modern mechanized army...
...Committee found the Government's early handling of the rubber shortage a welter of "procrastinations, indecisions, confusions of authority and lack of understanding." Another horror the committee found was the fact that rubber officials had ignored the priceless advice of Russian technicians who had ten years' experience in making synthetic rubber. Said the committee: "Inexplicable...
...conserve rubber the committee laid down hard and fast rules for all car owners in the U.S., strongly urged that the President put them in effect at once...
...these drastic recommendations the Committee had reason aplenty: the U.S. will have only 631,000 tons of natural rubber to last until Jan. 1, 1944. Minimum military and essential needs total 842,000 tons. The deficit of 211,000 tons can be made up from only one source-the synthetic plants now abuilding...